Kailas Shastry R <[email protected]>: >> >> Have you heard the Eliminator and Wind starters? >> > > Kawasaki?
Yes! That's why these vehicles are so popular that Bajaj can't managed to sell enough of them! <read as tongue in cheek> > >> Look at where the starters are on a Pulsar vis-a-vis the Unicorn. The >> Pulsars had starters designed to be external with the pinion to crank >> almost outside the engine. So starter/ non starter version would not >> need lots of parts different. Hence you tend to hear it more! > > That's BAL's problem / cost cutting. Not the owner's. You call it feature, I > call it cost cutting that leads to a user experience that's a couple of > notches below the competition. > (I may sound like a Bajaj advocate here, but I am not defending them in particular. I may be defending the approach tho'!). You call it cost cutting, I don't! I call it value addition, for me as a customer. Call it value engineering if you wish. But when I go to buy a bike, if I can get one with an ES for the same price as competitions KS only model. I would be happy. So what if it makes some more noise! Look at the Nano. How much you may call it the problem yet to hit India's congested roads. It is and will be a benchmark at smart design adding value for the end customer! Look at your Esteem! You keep complaining about stuff in it and it's build. But didn't you get an amazing engine? Didn't you get a Sedan at a price no other manufacturer could match? Does that stop you from getting that big car feel on the road? Does that stop people from considering it a "bada gaadi"? It was a product that fit your requirements at that time (as opposed to a Swift or a Palio) and you got it. Had they not done the "cost cutting" you complain of, would you have got it? Just because it has plastics that keep falling (as you say), it does not make it a less useful car to take your family around! Take a look at the new Nokia E63 I got. It makes no secret of the fact that it is a cost cut E71, with many features removed. But nothing can hide the fact that it costs more than a third less! And that's why I could even consider a full QWERTY phone! Yes it will be plasticy to feel and not have GPS and thicker than E71. But that didn't stop me from picking it up. It is exactly those smart cost cutting features that got it into my budget! And yes having a plastic body, does not make it a lesser phone! Just how you look at it! Cheers, Glifford.
